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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-10-28
CURIOUS FACTS.

-. ~ Nabots brother OF Sebastian IA
bot,had only 70 spell his name backwards
and the result wal, tobacco.
Edison sends up from Liewellyn Park
every night small balloon held by a wire.
The balloon bears an electric light, which
at the height Of 1000 feet or 50 II Il impos-
slbls 70 distinguish from star.
The flame In prairie fire at Manhattan,
Ell.,rscently reached height Of twenty or
thirty feet Of times, and the fire spread fast.
er than man could run.
According TO the last report OF the
United States commissioner of pensions,
there are In Vermont 6376 pensioners,
drawing annually $4,000 In round mum.
bers.
A rooster at Salem, ILL.,, II 30 fond OF
music that he will Ay In at the window OF
his masters house and run to and fro on
the keys Of the plano, delighted with the
sounds he evokes.
The glacier In the valley OF Glamour.
ix,after period OF rapid retreat and di.
minution In size, are again beginning TO
advance. As about fifty yards year Is
the rate OF advanced will take many years
to recover their former ground.
A tree called the umbrella tree OF Japan,
now growing In yard at Tallahassee,
Fla, though only three years old has leaves
on Il that measure 3Ixi6 inches. Il is
umbrella shaped, and makes sheiter that
L. - Ia ~afu
II you should have hlccough try one Of
the following remedies, every one OF which
10 vouehed for by different authorities
Slightly refrIgerate the lobe Of the ear ;
clasp the hands with arms raised above
the head press the finger each side under
the ear,near jawbone lnhale chioroform
until relieved.
A oRe.legged heggar Of st. Louis be-
came 90 urgent in his requests for aid that
he was arrested the other day. When the
police searched him they found fiiteen
tobacco bags In his pockets and sewed TO
his ragged ciothes.and each bag contained
some money. The total amount was
S7t4t.
The Brooklyn city directory has the
names Of George Washington, iaborer
Thomas Jefferson, painter John Adams,
brieklayer James Madison, cooper; James
Monroe, cutter John q. Adams, ,trnitereri
Andrsw jackson, engineer Martin Van
Biren,true driver William Henry Har.
Flson, grocer John Tyler, halter James
Polk, druggist Zach Taylor, mouldeE
Franklin Pieree,painter; Ismea buchanan
plasterer Abraham Lincoln,e clerk.
The Medical Press says tina, ply sieIau
living on the seaboard thus writes to 1
paper within the Lac. five years, In a
district embracing sixty square miles or sc
BY the sea, have noted the hour and ths
minute Of no less than ninety.three dem
ises in my own immediate practice anS
everp soul Of them has gone out with th,
tide, save four who died suddenly hy iata
accident,
A curious old anehor,very probably los
By the early French missionaries. wa,
found at the head of Green Bay. II APP
pears TO have been constructed from
young maple tree having three branchel
from the root. Another bar was iastenes
on. Thus far Il Is like a und.toppes
stool with four legs. On the bottom o.
these legs were fastened with mortiae an,
tenon the Aukes, which we're bars Of oai
crossing 8 each other,
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-10-28
Patent. Graa.sa.


Patents granted 10 citizens Of the Pacific
States during the past week and reported ex.
preseiy for the DENocRAT by c. A. Snow
& Co, Solicitors Of American and Foreign
Patents, opposite u. $. Patent Office, Wash.
lngton. D. c.
w y Best Los Angeles, portable cen
trifugal fountain.
Britvitch, Los Angeles, Cal. arched
bridge.
G N Drum, Los AlamOs, Cal, potato
masher
w Hunt, Los Angeles, Cal, washing
machine.
cM Jones, Fresno. Cal, car coupling.
E. hudson, San Francisco, Cal, pipe
wrench.
Knight, sutter Greek, Cal, hsdrsul
ic engine.
]. Menzics, San Francisco. stern tube
bushing for propeller shafts.
G ID salfeid, San Francisco, milk boiler
Tc White, Fresno, Cal, packing plate
for raisins.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-10-28
NOt.Cs for Publication.

Is-Ld ONE at Roseburg, Or
october l,th, lhS7.
Notice " hereby given that the follow
Ing namad settler has hled notice OF hts
intention 10 make hnal proof In support
OF his claim, and that said proof Will DO
made before the Judge ~ Clerk OF the
County CouTtuf Linn coua,y, Oregon. at
Albany, or. on
Saturday, Naveaber ISta. Iss1,
viz w w Robe, demestead Eutry No
l3Sl for the = + y. Soc d, Up l4, II
west Willamette meTldiAn Ae names the
follswing witnesses 20 prove his contin'
nous residence upon. aud cultivation Of,
said land, viz: @ f CAhert, or Crawfords-
v.lls, linn Co Or "A Hamilton, Of Sweet
Home, Linn Co, Or, Il y MarsterA. ol
Brownsville, Linn Co Or,, c b rycor, oi
Brownsville, Linn Co. Or
CHAs. W. JoHNsToN,
Register.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-10-28
i the Liquor nKbit Positively
administering d.. Hainee'
Enldau Enarfnn

1t can be given In cup Of coffee or tea with-
~ the knowledge OF the person taking Il; Is
alutely harmless and will etIecl q perIna-
and speedy cure. whether the patient Is q
ltrAt6 drlnker or an alcoholic wreck
.snusands Of drunkards have been made tenn
gefRte men who have taken Golden specific
u their coffee Without their knowledge, and
to-day believe they quit drinking 0f their own
free win. 1T NEyER FAILS. The system
once Iinpregn9ted with the SPECIFIC It becomes
an utter mpoaslbillty for tie liquor appetite to
exist. For fnIA pArllenlaEss address GOLDEN
ePKgEKyQ Coz. 1eR Reee ST.. cinelnnatI. Q.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-10-28
Indispensable % the Toilet.

Darbys Prophylactio FLUID cures chai
Ing, eruptions and Inflammation of eli
kinds cures innammed or sore eyes
relieves pains from bites or stings OF in;
sects and sore feet destroys all taint oi
or offensive smell from the
feet or any part ofthe body cleanses and
whitons the skin. Used as q dentifE ce 4:
puIities the breath preserves the teeth
and cures toothache; sore gums and nn
er. A little of the fiuld In the water Sc
In bathing is very refreshing and especia
ly beneficial TO the sick.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-10-28
Ladies' Fine shoes.

Nh Allea g Co. ars now receiving direct
from the manufacture. H Holbrook Il Co.,
OF u lea, N. Y, inii line Of his justly eel.
ebrated dne shoes for ladies aud misses in
G. d. E. and Il. Il. widths These goods
will give splendid satisfaction, in fact there
are no better made.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-10-28

:, Some fine, fresh saa lraut at VILLAGE &
Th0mpaon's.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-10-28

The Republican leaders Of Oregon have
made deep, dark threat,th II ST. John is
called to take part In the ''non-partisan"
campaign for Prohibition Amendment
there, they VIII defeat the Amendment.
They made the same threat In Michigan !,
and then defeated the Amendment any
how Ysiee.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-10-28

One hund red and twenty acres of.the besl
quality of improved wheat land, all fenced
into four fields, good house, hard finish,
good outhouses, excellent fruits of all kinds.
Situated ) miles west of Lebanon and one
and quarter miles south of the junction of
the Narrow Gauge r. r with the Lebanon
branch of the o. s. C. K. R. Inquire at
this Office.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-10-28

William Southmayd, the Oldest elector
In Connecticut, voted at the town election
in Middleton this week. He is ninety
eight years old and has voted every cleo.
ton since 1871.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-21
CandOr with WOrkingmen.

Whatever we may have to say to the
working classes, the spirit is likely to be as
important as the matter. 1t is q thing of
course, that politicians, having respect to
the recompense of reward, will flatter and
fawn upon those who hold so large mass
of political power; but more sense and more
self Prospect might fairly have been expect
ed Of many of the persons, themselves alto
gether disinterested and sincere, who have
of late contributed to the literature of the
labor question. Some of these writers can
not refer to the general issue between Ia
borers and employers, or even to q specific
demand for higher wages or fewer hours,
without gushing over the virtues of the
working classes; without talking as if there
were something peculiarly noble and self
sacrificing in occupying that position; with
out assuming, in advance OF investigation,
that any body of laborers must be right in
any claim they may choose to make, and
casting reproachful glances at every
employer who entertains notions of his
own regarding his interests or rights, as
if he were prosecutor of the saints.
Now, this sort of thing is foolish, and,
SO far as it has any effect at all, is
mischievous. If the working classes are
not spoiled by the unceasing adulation Of
which they are the subjects, it is because
they have too much rugged sense of their
own and too much native insight into char
acter. But there is little reason to doubt
that this kind of talk has its effect, in a
degree-that many a laborer has been
made FESTIVE by it, and that it has prepar-
ed the way for the seductions OF the dema-
coQue.-iScribneT's Magusine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-21
SOudanese Marriage Dance.

The festivities that accompany a
marriage in the SOudan have much Of
the character of public entertain
ment, but most especially in the terp-
sichorean department OF the same.
AS in more civilized communities, the
ladies take special delight in moving
their feet to the sound of music, but
the music in these equatorial regions
is very harsh to the European ear, as
might be expected, consisting as it does
of cumming" on a drum (kid-skin
stretched over copper veSsel) and
few twanging notes on harp-like in
strument, more pleasing to the eye
than TO the ear, as it is decorated with
bands of beads and with feathers.
Time being all-important to the dam
GERS, this is made more marked by one
OF the latter, who wears q girdle from
which innumerable cowrie shells are
suspended, and which clash together
violently as the man sways his body
from side to side. Men and women
both chant few monotonous bars, the
ladies' occasionally varying the sound
with shrill screeching. The dancing
is also OF the simplest description, the
performers stamping the ground with
their feet and clapping their hands, the
women being arranged together in
ranks, whilst the men, of whom only
three or four dance together at the
same time, caper about in small open
space left for them. Endurance seems
to be the object Of all, but more espe-
cially on the part of the men, who also
attempt to outvie each other in saying
funny things, in which no doubt some
of them succeed, judging by the laugh
ter they create amongst on-lOokers and
performers alike. Under the hot des-
ert sun one can easily imagine that the
perspira.ion is free, and the atmos-
phere in the small circle not exceed
ingly wholesome, nevertheless there is
woman sometimes more than one)
with her garments drawn over her
head, who, kneeling on the heated
earth in the humblest posture, swayS
backward and forward, with her face
apparently resting in the dust. l was
told this was the wife, but thinlSvthat
is doubtful, from what is generally
related of the seclusive habits of the
Arabs, but it is, at any rate, truly
symbolical of the position of the fe-
male slave, styled a wife, amongst
these fanatical savages.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-21
POPULAR SCIENCE.

By means Of an air gun, Prof. G. l..
Mees has found that TO drive straws
into pine boards and hickory bark, as
is often done by tOrnadOes, a velocity
of $50 to l72 miles an hour is neces-
sary.
SUGAR has frequently been recon-
mended as means of preventing
boiler incrustation. Recent expert
ments have shown that formic acid is
generated by such use, attacking the
iron of the boiler.
SOMETIMES the lampwick will obs
tinately refuse to be turned up in an
orderly manner. 1t will seem firmly
wedged at one side, while the other
will run up in point, causing weari-
ness and vexation of spirit. To over
come this depravity take new wick,
draw out single thread near the
selvage, and the wick will be found
quite tractable when introduced into
the burner, The cogs will take it Np
properly, and it will appear in cd
form and give an even flame When
lighted.
THERE is, as Prof. Thompson re-
marks, no assignable "velocity of cleo
tricity," as this must vary with the
current and the conductor. Wheat
stone in 1888, seemed to show trans
mission velocity of 2SS,000 miles sec
ond through copper wire; but in late
experiments signals were sent oveE or
binary telegraph wires on poles, and
had rate of only $4,000 to 10000
miles. With wires near the earth the
velocity was $4,000 miles, but reached
"a 900 on very high wires.
IT is generally supposed that pneu-
monia is due to the accidental penetra-
ton of specific microbes into the sys-
tenn, but the observations Of M. JAG
coud, French student of the subject,
show that the disease really results
from the development, under favorable
conditions, of microbic germs perma-
nently present in the system. A chief
condition of such development is sud-
den chill, which explains the frequent
coincidence of lung affections with alb
rupt changes of temperature.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-21
Running n NeMSnaner.

Here ia one of the men who thinks
he can "run q newspaper, writes q
scribe on the East JVGshingtonia1s, of
Pomeroy, w. L. He stands in the
saloon with his back to the bar and
tells how he could run newspaper
how he could expose corruption in
high places: how he could write good,
sound common sense, and none of your
frivolous, try-to- be-funny stuff. Then
he criticises other peoples methods of
running newspapers, and just wishes
some one would give him the chance to
show his journalistic ability. The way
to cure one OF these chaps is to get him
to agree to write q sensible article
every day for one week. Before the
week is out he is sure to be pumped
dry and will cape worse for an idea
thau chicken does with the pip. A
great many quite bright and intelligent
men imagine they "can run newspa.
pers." 1t costs some of them quite
small fortunes to find out that they
cannot. Even then they are not will.
ing to admit that it is because they dc
not "catch on" to the true newspaper
idea. They live and die with the notion
that it is the fault of the public and moi
their own.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-21
THE FEDERATION OF LABOR.
Encroachments of tho knights to Be Re-
sisted-Mr. Gompers Reelected.

EncrOachmentS OF tho knights 10 80 te-
sisted-Mr. Gompers Reelected.
Baltimore special
At the session OF the American Fedora
ton of Labor on Friday the per capita tax
was reduced from to / of a cent month.
All State federations are to lie taxed S25
annually. 1t was voted TO employ a salaried
organizer. A resolution compelling local
unions to unite into State declarations was
rejected. The constitution was adopted as
amended.
1t was decided not to send delegates to
the Trades Union Congress at London
next year. It was resolved to ask Con-
gress to shorten the hours of labor in view
of the decreased number of workmen
needed on account of labor saving ma
chinery. The committee on the growth Of
the order reported that the rapid growth Of
the order resulted from the first avowed
purpose of the federation to allow each
trade to govern itself; second. to the dis
content of the knights of Labor. The
committee recommended, by reason of the
mismanagement of the Lnights of Labor,
and their desperate use of strikes. that the
federation use its utmost endeavor to re-
sist the encroachments of the Knights of
Labor, as that organization showed itself
opposed to trades unionism. The report
was adopted with enthusiasm. The fol-
lowing officers were elected by acclamation:
President Samuel l.. Gompers, New York,
representing the International Cigar-makers'
Union First Vice President, Daniel McLaugh-
lin, representing the Illinois Miners Associa-
ton Second Vice President, William Martin,
of the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers
Association Secretary. L. j. Mcclure, of the
Philadelphia Brotherhood Of Carpenters and
Joiners; Treasurer Gabriel Edmondson of the
Washington Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners
1t was decided to hold the next conven-
TO-, -, nYic
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-21
THE KINGDOM OF LOVE.
BIZ ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.


In the dawn of day. when tho sea and the
Reflected tho sunrise above.
ses forth with q heart full OF courage and
To seek for the Kingdom of Love-
y asked OF poet met on tho way
Which cross-road would lead me Alright.
And he said: Follow me, and ore long you will
It's glittering turrets of light"
Look yonder" he said there ii gleamst
But. alasi for the hoped that were doomed to
Il was only tho Kingdom of Dreams.
Then the next man 1 asked was gay cava-
ler,
And he said Follow me, follow me-"
And with laughter ana song wo Went speeding
BY the shores of life's beautiful sea,
Till We came to n valley more tropical far
Than the wonderful Vale OF Cashmere.
And saw from bower a face like u flower
Smile out on the gay cavalier.
And he said: We have come to humanity's
goal;
Here love and delight are intense"
But. alas and alasl for the hope OF my soul
1t was only the Kingdom OF Sense.
As Ijourneyed more slowly met on the road
coach with retainers behind,
And they said: Follow us, for our lady's
abode
Belongs in the realm you will find"
Twas II grand dame of fashion, newly wed
bride;
followed, encouraged and bold,
But my hopes died away, like the last gle ans
of day,
For we came to the Kingdom of Gold.
At the door of a cottage asked fair maid.
Il have heard of that realm, she replied,
but my feet never roam from the Kingdom OF
Home,
So know not the way ard she sighed.
looked on the cottage how restful il seemed
And the maid as fair as dove.
Great light glorihed my soul as cried:
why. home is the Kingdom OF Lover
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-21
Who Wrote Shakespeare!

On the vexed question, "Who wrote
Shakespeare" correspondent Of the New
York World sends the following compre-
hensive epistle: Hamlet overheard julius
Caesar tell King Lear on the Twelfth Night
after the Tempest that Antony and Cleo
patra had told Coriolanus that Two Gentle
men of Verona were the authors Of Shak.
speare's plays. Lear said: You may take
it AS You Like 1t, but 1 don't believe it.,
for 1 heard Romeo and Juliet say Loves
Labor was lost when Troilus and Cressida
stole the Comedy of Errors, and sold it to
the Merchant Of Venice for q cup of sack
and dish of caraways. Timon of Athens
and Cymbeline were parties to the theft,
and after drinking Measure for Measure
with the Merry Wives Of Windsor, told
King John all about it. Richard III, a
competent critic, said Bacon could not
write even A Winters Tale, and Henry
VIII. said that settles it. So why make so
Much Ado About Nothing? Othello was
busy discussing point Of honor with
Henry w., ", and VI, and as Richard
III. was about Tanning the Shrew. / could
get no further evidence as to who wrote
Shakespeare, but Ais Well that Ends
WE'LL"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-21

There, there, child" the old fellow MUIR
INJURED, in voice husky with emotion; "it' s
all forgot now, an" But he did not
finish the sentence And, willie Mary was
kissing grandma and all were silently cry
ing for JOY, he began TO hustle around and
get on his boots to go out and "see about
the horses" But, as Will and Mary had
come to the station, only two miles distant.
by rail, and had there hired man and
team to bring them over, his services in
this direction were not needed.
He did, however, build up such fire in
the old fire. place as it had not seen for
many day; and, as they all sat around it
and talked until long after the stroke Of II,
it was indeed to them q happy Christmas.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-21
Hard on Him.

There are few aesthetic men who use
square, tinted envelopes, and affect a
feminine hand, even i'll business let
tiers. by some mistake" says mar
ried man, lone Of that kind was sent
to my house the other day instead of
my office. When 1 went home that
evening the letter was laid on my plate
at the table and my wife in the dumpA
She had been crying. l opened The
letter and was annoyed by its contents.
Slowly tore it up into little pieces
and threw them on the floor.
My wife, with more color in her face
than like to see, said: "I'll see who
this woman is" and, picking up the
pieces, she carried them to her room,
and at the end of an hour managed to
get the letter together and read: Dear
Sir: AS my son is going into the in
surance next month, shall hereafter
place my business in his hands," Had
it been winter and 1 had thrown the
letter into the fire / would not have
been able to square it within q week.
Nc,c York Tribune.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-21

time; in fact, such thing was never
heard Of But now it is different. 1t
is certainly bad enough when q man,
out of Inherent laziness or downright
cussedness, won't work, but when he IS
of an Industrious turn, wants work, and
more than that, needs il to enable him
to feed and clOthe the loved ones who
are dependent upon him, then, L say,
no greater curse could befall him.
In my younger days fellow who
what he did, in tho way of honest Ia
Dor, was never idle. 1t was not until
/ had been man grown that l began
to find out that there were thousands
of fellows all over this country out OF
employment, and no work to be had of
any kind, to enable them to keep soul
and body together. Can you imagine
anything more disooursging than a
hard days tramp from place to place,
without penny in your POCKET, beg
ging for work enough to procure meal
and bed. and at nightfall to find that
you are the owner of nothing but vo-
raciOus appetite, SO imperative and I'M
relenting in its demands that you are
tempted to rob, steal, or even to COM
nit murder, and all in self-defense?
Pretty black picture, isn't it? Yes;
but not overdrawn.
When a man asks for aims outright,
then it is right and proper to investi-
gate his case and to see whether he is
not deserving object of charity. If
he so proves, then those of philan-
thropic turn not only relieve his pres
ent needs, but take steps to give per-
manent aid, such as helping him to
employment whereby he may become
self-supporting and remain no longer
charge on the community. But
when man comes along asking for
work it is different. 1t is at once con-
coded that man who wants to work
ought to be permitted to do so. He is
not asking charity. but employment
But many times it would save him ask
ing for bread or for money to buy a
nights lodging, if those whom he asks
for work would do something to help
him to obtain it. Ask him a
few questions as to what he wants
to do, what he can do. what he
is willing to do, and then think
for minute, If there is not some
place to which he can be directed where
he is likely to obtain that for which he
is seeking. Some men are very easily
disheartened, especially when they are
LOOKING for work, but still, even on
such, little of the milk of human
kindness is not wasted l have often
thought that Hollands idea of charity
was good one. He said: Build
churches, school-houses, and work
shops, but give no man q dollar in
charity, except as you give him labor
by which he may honestly earn it"
OF course this rule does not apply to
the sick and helpless, but only to the
able bodied applicant for some small
change. So my advice, George, is
always to help fellow to find work (;
he can accept such favor without sac
rificing his self-respect. But man
who can accept penny in the way of
charity, and with no thought of re-
paying, has taken the first step to be-
come beggar, if he is not, indeed,
already professional mendicant.
Yours cordially, UNCLE SAM.